On Thursday, July 17, 2008 10:41:05 AM UTC-7, JoAnne Schmitz wrote:   
   > I'm used to getting ULs with "verified by Snopes" in them somewhere.  So I   
   > did what I usually do when a friend sent an anti-Obama screed to me,   
   > complete with the Subject: line "Buchanan to Obama (verified by Snopes as   
   > true)" -- I went to Snopes.   
   >    
   > Usually it turns out that the "verified" means somewhere in the Snopes   
   > article, there's something true in the whole mess, and this is carefully   
   > explained in the article.   
   >    
   > This time, Snopes just categorized this one as "true," apparently on the   
   > basis that Pat Buchanan really did write what he's claimed to have written.   
   > I would say that one fact is minor in comparison to the many claims in the   
   > forward both factual and political.     
   >    
   > I don't visit Snopes as often as I used to.  Do they no longer deconstruct   
   > claims in any detail?  This isn't so new; it came out in March 2008.   
   >    
   > Perhaps the next email forward I get will be claiming that a nationally   
   > distributed picture of Barack and Michelle confirms that they are violent   
   > Muslim terrorists and flag-burners.  And Snopes will brand it as "True,"   
   > with a link to the New Yorker cover.   
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   >    
   > Buchanan to Obama   
   >    
   > PLEASE SEND THIS AROUND   
   >    
   >    
   > by Patrick J. Buchanan   
   >    
   > Barack says we need to have a conversation about race in America.?   
   >    
   > Fair enough.    
   > But this time, it has to be a 2-way conversation.    
   > White America needs to be heard from, not just lectured to.   
   >    
   > This time, the Silent Majority needs to have its convictions,    
   > grievances and demands heard.    
   > And among them are these:   
   >    
   > First, America has been the best country on earth for black    
   > folks. It was here that 600,000 black people, brought from    
   > Africa in slave ships, grew into a community of 40 million,    
   > were introduced to Christian salvation, and reached the    
   > greatest levels of freedom and prosperity blacks have ever known.   
   >    
   > Wright ought to go down on his knees and thank God he    
   > is an American.   
   >    
   > Second, no people anywhere has done more to lift up    
   > blacks than white Americans.    
   > Untold trillions have been spent since the '60s on welfare,    
   > food stamps, rent supplements, Section 8 housing, Pell grants,    
   > student loans, legal services, Medicaid, Earned Income Tax    
   > Credits and poverty programs designed to bring the    
   > African-American community into the mainstream.   
   >    
   > Governments, businesses and colleges have engaged    
   > in discrimination against white folks -- with affirmative action,    
   > contract set-asides and quotas -- to advance black applicants    
   > over white applicants.   
   >    
   > Churches, foundations, civic groups, schools and individuals    
   > all over America have donated time and money to support    
   > soup kitchens, adult education, day care, retirement and    
   > nursing homes for blacks.   
   >    
   > We hear the grievances.    
   > Where is the gratitude??   
   >    
   > Barack talks about new 'ladders of opportunity' for blacks.   
   >    
   > Let him go to Altoona and Johnstown , and ask the white kids    
   > in Catholic schools how many were visited lately by Ivy League    
   > recruiters handing out scholarships for 'deserving' white kids?   
   >    
   > Is white America really responsible for the fact that the crime    
   > and incarceration rates for African-Americans are 7 times    
   > those of white America ? Is it really white America 's fault that    
   > illegitimacy in the African-American community has hit 70%    
   > and the black dropout rate from high schools in some cities    
   > has reached 50%?   
   >    
   > Is that the fault of white America or, first and foremost, a    
   > failure of the black community itself?   
   >    
   > As for racism, its ugliest manifestation is in interracial    
   > crime, and especially interracial crimes of violence.    
   > Is Barack Obama aware that while white criminals    
   > choose black victims 3% of the time, black criminals    
   > choose white victims 45% of the time?   
   >    
   > Is Barack aware that black-on-white rapes are 100 times    
   > more common than the reverse, that black-on-white robberies    
   > were 139 times as common in the first 3 years of this decade.   
   >    
   > We have all heard ad nauseam from the Rev. Al about    
   > Tawana Brawley, the Duke rape case and Jena .    
   > And all turned out to be hoaxes.    
   > But about the epidemic of black assaults on whites    
   > that are real, we hear nothing.   
   >    
   > Sorry, Barack, some of us have heard it all before,    
   > about 40 years and 40 trillion tax dollars ago.   
   > Be a better friend,      .   
   > PLEASE SEND THIS AROUND   
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   > JoAnne "be an even better friend, engage brain before forwarding" Schmitz   
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